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Wed, 28 Jan 2015 13:10:32 -0500Wed, 28 Jan 2015 13:11:01 -0500Alex Jones: 'Rand Paul Is Awesome,' Just 'Playing Politics' To Moderate His Imagehttp://www.pfaw.org/content/alex-jones-rand-paul-awesome-just-playing-politics-moderate-his-image
<p>It&rsquo;s no secret that conspiracy theorist Alex Jones is a <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/alex-jones-envisions-paul-cruz-dream-ticket-rand-paul-best">huge</a> <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/alex-jones-describes-his-long-relationship-rand-paul">fan</a> of Sen. Rand Paul, and he is positively giddy about the prospect of the Kentucky Republican running for president.</p>
<p>On <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ez3n9rrsgaI">Monday</a>, the &ldquo;InfoWars&rdquo; host urged his followers not to back a third-party candidate but to &ldquo;take over one of the two big parties&rdquo; and rally around people like Paul, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, who are disliked by the &ldquo;power structure.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Jones <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJThcPxCo_g&feature=youtu.be">told</a> his viewers that Paul is the real deal, and if he appears to have moderated his views or distanced himself from his father&rsquo;s extreme positions over the last few years, it is only because he is &ldquo;playing politics&rdquo; with the elitists in the media and government who are intent on destroying him.</p>
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I&rsquo;ve known Rand Paul since 1995. He&rsquo;s been at Austin [home of InfoWars], we&rsquo;ve interviewed him. I am one of the first people to ever get him on air, probably the first. I know Rand Paul and I know he&rsquo;s for real. That&rsquo;s why even though he has played politics with them and come out and said some things that they want to hear, the Atlantic Monthly and others are saying 'don&rsquo;t believe him, he&rsquo;s nuts like his father,' because yeah, he is a constitutionalist patriot like his father and they know that. He&rsquo;s playing politics with them, like Clinton played politics in saying he didn&rsquo;t want your guns or Obama did. Well, he&rsquo;s doing that on the opposite end, and they know it and they don&rsquo;t like it and they&rsquo;re coming after him. Rand Paul is awesome.</blockquote>
Brian TashmanAlex JonesC4Election 2016Rand PaulRon PaulFighting the Right49637Wed, 28 Jan 2015 13:10:32 -0500Ron PaulRon Paul Is Just Asking The Question: Was The Charlie Hebdo Attack A False Flag Operation?http://www.pfaw.org/content/ron-paul-just-asking-question-was-charlie-hebdo-attack-false-flag-operation
<p>In an appearance today on the Newsmax show &ldquo;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKHtE5COpQo">Midpoint</a>,&rdquo; former congressman Ron Paul defended <a href="http://reason.com/blog/2015/01/15/ron-paul-institute-publishes-a-charlie-h">a conspiracy theorist&rsquo;s article published on the Ron Paul Institute&rsquo;s website</a> this week suggesting that the attack at Charlie Hebdo&rsquo;s offices, along with 9/11, was an American false flag operation designed &ldquo;to cow France and place France back under Washington&rsquo;s thumb.&rdquo;</p>
<p>According to Paul, neither he nor the author believe that the Charlie Hebdo attack was <em>actually</em> a false flag.</p>
<p>Instead, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_uYwgUVEhk&feature=youtu.be">Paul claimed</a>, the author was <em>just asking the question</em> and &ldquo;determined to try to get truth out&rdquo; about the attacks, and since he was just asking the question, he shouldn&rsquo;t be held responsible for the contents of the allegations.</p>
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<p>&ldquo;I think he suggested it, he wanted a discussion and he has some really good things in there<span style="line-height: 20.3999996185303px;">,&rdquo; Paul said</span><span style="line-height: 20.3999996185303px;">. It&rsquo;s a shame that the media doesn&rsquo;t pick up and say &lsquo;what about this chief investigator of the event committed suicide right in the middle of it?&rsquo; I have no idea what&rsquo;s going on there but that to me is big stuff</span><span style="line-height: 20.3999996185303px;">.&rdquo;&nbsp;</span></p>
<p>&ldquo;They&rsquo;re not accusations, he pointed out some shortcomings and wanted to ask questions and get to some answers,&rdquo; he said.</p>
<p>Paul pointed to the 2012 Benghazi attack as a reason to doubt reports surrounding the Charlie Hebdo massacre and &ldquo;of course we have Rahm Emmanuel who says don&rsquo;t ever let an emergency goes to waste, and I think that is part of what is going on there, this is a design to restructure and reorient people on foreign policy.&rdquo;</p>
Brian TashmanC4Ron PaulFighting the Right49522Fri, 16 Jan 2015 15:00:27 -0500Ron PaulRight Wing Round-Up - 1/15/15http://www.pfaw.org/content/right-wing-round-11515
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<ul> <li> <a href="http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/ron-paul-institute-paris-attack-false-flag">Brendan James @ TPM</a>: Article On Ron Paul Institute Website Calls Paris Attacks A 'False Flag.'</li> <p> <li> <a href="http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2015/01/14/i-had-no-idea-i-was-capable-of-such-savagery/">Hemant Mehta @ Friendly Atheist</a>: I Had No Idea I Was Capable of Such Savagery.</li> <p> <li> <a href="http://www.patheos.com/blogs/warrenthrockmorton/2015/01/15/lifeway-books-returning-boy-who-came-back-from-heaven-to-publisher/">Warren Throckmorton</a>: After Co-Author&rsquo;s Retraction, Lifeway Books Returning Boy Who Came Back From Heaven to Publisher.</li> <p> <li> <a href="http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/01/conservative-christians-freak-out-over-muslim-call-to-prayer-at-duke-university/">Travis Gettys @ Raw Story</a>: Conservative Christians freak out over Muslim call to prayer at Duke University.</li> <p> <li> <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2015/01/15/3611920/kentucky-transgender-bathroom-ban/">Zack Ford @ Think Progress</a>: Lawmaker Wants To Pay Students $2,500 If They See A Transgender Person In The &lsquo;Wrong&rsquo; Bathroom.</li></ul>
Kyle MantylaRon PaulRound-Up49512Thu, 15 Jan 2015 17:33:18 -0500Ron PaulRight Wing Round-Up - 7/3/14http://www.pfaw.org/content/right-wing-round-7314
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<ul> <li> <a href="http://blog.pfaw.org/content/another-damaging-supreme-court-term">Paul @ PFAW Blog</a>: Another Damaging Supreme Court Term.</li> <p> <li> <a href="http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/07/03/ron-paul-and-newsmax-hospitals-are-under-siege-by-immigrants-who-might-have-ebola/">David Edwards @ Raw Story</a>: Ron Paul and Newsmax: Hospitals are &lsquo;under siege by immigrants&rsquo; who might have &lsquo;ebola.&rsquo;</li> <p> <li> <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/colorados-beauprez-joins-the-47-percent-club">Steve Benen @ The Maddow Blog</a>: Colorado&rsquo;s Beauprez joins the &lsquo;47 percent&rsquo; club.</li> <p> <li> <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2014/07/03/3456355/religious-liberty-lgbt-employment/">Zack Ford @ Think Progress</a>: Anti-Gay Activist Implores Conservatives To Abandon &lsquo;Whiny&rsquo; Religious Liberty Arguments.</li> <p> <li> <a href="http://www.mediaite.com/online/cliven-bundy-without-the-militia-and-without-the-media-we-would-be-dead/">Josh Feldman @ Mediaite</a>: Cliven Bundy: &lsquo;Without the Militia and Without the Media, We Would Be Dead.&rsquo;</li> <p> <li> <a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/lone-star-crazy-how-right-wing-extremists-took-over-texas-20140701">Mark Binelli @ Rolling Stone</a>: Lone Star Crazy: How Right-Wing Extremists Took Over Texas.</li></ul>
Kyle MantylaCliven BundyRon PaulRound-Up47463Thu, 03 Jul 2014 14:07:26 -0500Ron PaulRight Wing Round-Up - 6/19/14http://www.pfaw.org/content/right-wing-round-61914
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<a href="http://america.aljazeera.com/watch/shows/america-tonight/articles/2014/6/18/bob-jones-universitysexualabuse.html">Claire Gordon @ AJAM</a>: Rape victims say Bob Jones University told them to repent.&nbsp;</li>
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<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/06/second-amendment-guns-michael-waldman">Hannah Levintova @ Mother Jones</a>: The Second Amendment Doesn't Say What You Think It Does.&nbsp;</li>
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<a href="http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/megyn-kelly-dick-cheney-wrong-iraq">Catherine Thompson @ TPM</a>: Megyn Kelly Confronts Dick Cheney: 'You Got It Wrong' On Iraq.&nbsp;</li>
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<a href="http://www.mediaite.com/online/ron-paul-glenn-beck-and-hannity-will-appear-in-a-movie-together/">Josh Feldman @ Mediaite</a>: Ron Paul, Glenn Beck, and Hannity Will Appear in a Movie Together.&nbsp;</li>
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<a href="http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2014/06/19/minnesota-gop-nominates-bible-waving-drunk-driving-david-barton-loving-lawyer-for-state-supreme-court/">Hemant Mehta @ The Friendly Atheist</a>: Minnesota GOP Nominates Bible-Waving, Drunk-Driving, David Barton-Loving Lawyer for State Supreme Court.</li>
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Brian TashmanC4Ron PaulRound-UpSean Hannity Glenn BeckFighting the Right47276Thu, 19 Jun 2014 17:05:36 -0500Ron PaulPat Robertson And Ron Paul Agree Progressives Use Public Schools To 'Indoctrinate Children'http://www.pfaw.org/content/pat-robertson-and-ron-paul-agree-progressives-use-public-schools-indoctrinate-children
<p>Ron Paul appeared on the <a href="http://www.cbn.com/tv/2681498718001"><em>700 Club</em></a> today to promote his new <a href="http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2013/04/ron-paul-home-schooling-curriculum/64047/">curriculum for homeschoolers</a>, of which televangelist Pat Robertson is a big fan. Robertson said that Paul&rsquo;s curriculum, which includes instructions on &ldquo;the Biblical principles of self-government&rdquo; and &ldquo;a thorough understanding of Austrian school economics,&rdquo; is necessary to stop &ldquo;indoctrination&rdquo; in public education.</p>
<p>&ldquo;Don&rsquo;t the so-called progressives and whatever, don&rsquo;t they really want education to indoctrinate children. It&rsquo;s not just a question of educating they want to indoctrinate them in their philosophy, don&rsquo;t they?&rdquo; Robertson inquired.</p>
<p>&ldquo;I think that&rsquo;s the whole purpose, it&rsquo;s indoctrination; it&rsquo;s compulsory; it&rsquo;s conformity; destroy creativity; destroy individuality,&rdquo; Paul maintained. &ldquo;They don&rsquo;t want kids to be curious, they have to conform and mold it and then they are obedient to the state.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Paul said that the NSA surveillance program, government spending and militarism are all the consequences of the public schools&rsquo; efforts to &ldquo;condition&rdquo; children &ldquo;to say the government knows best, they&rsquo;ll take care of it.&rdquo;</p>
<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fu8LJgHIwAQ&feature=youtu.be">Watch:</a></p>
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Brian Tashman700 ClubC4EducationPat Robertson Ron PaulChristian Broadcasting NetworkFighting the Right44308Thu, 19 Sep 2013 12:10:09 -0500Ron PaulRight Wing Round-Up - 8/23/13http://www.pfaw.org/content/right-wing-round-82313
<ul> <li> <a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2013/08/23/glenn_beck_s_racial_trolling_and_the_search_for_bizzaro_trayvon.html">Dave Weigel</a>:
Glenn Beck's Racial Trolling, and the Search for Bizarro Trayvon.</li> <p> <li> <a
href="http://www.salon.com/2013/08/22/no_chris_lane_is_not_trayvon_martin/">Alex Seitz-Wald @ Salon</a>: No, Chris Lane is not Trayvon
Martin!</li> <p> <li> <a href="http://mediamatters.org/video/2013/08/22/fox-guest-suggests-oklahoma-shooting-resulted-
i/195544">Media Matters</a>: Fox Guest Suggests Oklahoma Shooting Resulted In Part Because Shooters "Could Have Been
Aborted."</li> <p> <li> <a href="http://www.talk2action.org/story/2013/8/23/144536/636">Rachel Tabachnick @ Talk
To Action</a>: Ron Paul to Keynote Catholic Traditionalist Summit with NeoFascist and Overtly Anti-Semitic Speakers.</li> <p> <li>
<a href="http://equalitymatters.org/blog/201308220006">Carlos Maza @ Equality Matters</a>: Daily Beast Publishes Piece Suggesting Prison
Is Pretty Great For Transgender People.</li> <p> <li> <a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/djpeisner/the-man-behind-the-
historic-implosion-of-the-ex-gay-movement">David Peisner @ BuzzFeed</a>: The Man Behind The Historic Implosion Of The Ex-Gay
Movement.</li></ul>Kyle MantylaAlan Chambers Ron PaulRound-Up44071Fri, 23 Aug 2013 16:33:05 -0500Ron PaulJoseph Farah on His Friendship with Rand Paul and Why Ron Paul Isn't A Christianhttp://www.pfaw.org/content/joseph-farah-his-friendship-rand-paul-and-why-ron-paul-isnt-christian
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<p>Speaking to End Times radio broadcaster Jan Markell, WorldNetDaily editor and birther leader Joseph Farah described his <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/rand-pauls-travels-birthers">recent tour of Israel</a> with Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), which was organized by the American Family Association and included a number of Religious Right activists.</p>
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<p>Farah described a cozy relationship with Paul, whose staff he says reached out to him to come on the trip. But Farah did not have kind words for the senator&rsquo;s father, former congressman and presidential candidate Ron Paul, whom he claimed is not a real Christian.</p>
<p>&ldquo;Ron Paul is hardly a friend to Israel and I don&rsquo;t think that he is a Christian,&rdquo; Farah said. &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t think he has a Christian worldview.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Farah said that unlike his father, Rand Paul &ldquo;understands the threat that the Muslim world holds not only against Israel but against us.&rdquo; He added that he and the senator prayed together at the Western Wall and that the senator had a &ldquo;spiritual journey&rdquo; while in Israel.</p>
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I had the privilege of traveling to Israel with Rand Paul and spending a lot of time with him there. I was asked to go on the tour; his staff asked me to come on the tour because I think they wanted to hear the Israel point of view from an Arab-American journalist as opposed to just Benjamin Netanyahu and other Israeli leaders and so forth and so I was able to do that. I also was very impressed with the fact that Rand Paul is not his father; I want to say that unequivocally.<br />
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I had many, many problems with Ron Paul. I do believe that Ron Paul is hardly a friend to Israel and I don&rsquo;t think that he is a Christian; I don&rsquo;t think he has a Christian worldview. Now, I admire Ron Paul&rsquo;s economic policies, there were many things that he did throughout his career that I think were terrific. Rand Paul to me, I&rsquo;m not endorsing him, I&rsquo;m just telling you what I know and what I got to know from personal experience with him, is a believer. He went to Israel and he had a spiritual journey there that was very, very meaningful to him. I got to pray with him at the Western Wall. We went to visit all of the holy sites in Israel. It was with his wife and younger children, it was a moving experience for them, an unforgettable, life-changing kind of experience.<br />
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I got to grill him pretty intensively. I can sincerely say that I believe he thinks Israel is at least one of our best friends in the world if not our best friend. That&rsquo;s a big, big difference from his father. He understands the threat that the Muslim world holds not only against Israel but against us. That&rsquo;s a big difference from what his father said and understood.</blockquote>
<p>And in case we had forgotten what a <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/farah-america-about-to-be-destroyed">fervent</a> <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/farah-obama-third-term">conspiracy</a> <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/wnd%E2%80%99s-farah-praises-%E2%80%9Cpink-swastika%E2%80%9D-warns-gay-rights-could-lead-nazism">theorist</a> Farah is, earlier in the show he told Markell that the country may soon become a dictatorship.</p>
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<strong>Markell</strong>: Do you think America is headed for a dictatorship? If so, what do you tell Christians who are watching their country morph into something unrecognizable?<br />
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<strong>Farah</strong>: I do believe we&rsquo;re headed in that direction. Do I believe it&rsquo;s irreversible? Absolutely not. I cling to 2 Chronicles 7:14; I cling to the idea that there can be a real revival in this country; I cling to the idea that Christians are going to awaken to what&rsquo;s going on around them; and I cling to the idea that the Holy Spirit can move at any time and help us save ourselves from that terrible outcome. However, there&rsquo;s no question that we&rsquo;re moving closer and closer to tyranny, police state kinds of conditions. We&rsquo;re seeing evidence all the time, the gun confiscation mania is just one of many examples.</blockquote>
Brian TashmanC4Election 2016Joseph Farah Rand PaulRon PaulWorldNetDaily Fighting the Right42609Fri, 29 Mar 2013 09:30:09 -0500Ron PaulRight Wing Round-Up - 2/11/13http://www.pfaw.org/content/right-wing-round-21113
<ul> <li> <a href="http://www.mediaite.com/online/foxs-roger-ailes-obama-too-busy-getting-the-middle-class-to-hate-rich-people-blacks-to-hate-whites/">Meenal Vamburkar @ Mediaite</a>: Roger Ailes: Obama &lsquo;Too Busy Getting The Middle Class To Hate Rich People, Blacks To Hate Whites.&rsquo;</li> <p> <li> <a href="http://maddowblog.msnbc.com/_news/2013/02/11/16927650-roger-ailes-has-a-plan">Steve Benen @ The Maddow Blog</a>: Roger Ailes has a plan.</li> <p> <li> <a href="http://www.cjr.org/united_states_project/the_washington_times_takes_a_b.php">Mariah Blake @ Columbia Journalism Review</a>: The Washington Times takes a giant step&mdash;backwards.</li> <p> <li> <a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/02/11/a-brief-history-of-conservative-anger-at-propag/192606">Ben Dimiero @ Eric Hananoki @ Media Matters</a>: A Brief History Of Conservative Anger At "Propagandist" Karl Rove And His "Repulsive" Political Group.</li> <p> <li> <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/security/2013/02/11/1572411/ron-paul-united-nations/">Hayes Brown @ Think Progress</a>: U.N. Conspiracy Theorist Ron Paul Turns To U.N. To Solve Website Dispute.</li>
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Kyle MantylaKarl Rove Ron PaulRound-Up42183Mon, 11 Feb 2013 17:33:30 -0500Ron PaulRight Wing Leftovers - 12/21/12http://www.pfaw.org/content/right-wing-leftovers-122112
<ul> <li> Despite the fact that it is 2012, WND <a href="http://www.wnd.com/2012/12/meet-wnds-man-of-the-decade/">has named</a> Ron Paul it's "Man of the Decade." What decade?&nbsp; 2002-2012? Who hands out awards like that?</li> <p> <li> Sadly the Birther chairman of the Arizona Republican Party says he <a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2012/12/birther-gop-chair-leaving-office-85396.html">won&rsquo;t seek</a> reelection.</li> <p> <li> Obviously, it was <a href="http://www.christianpost.com/news/adam-lanzas-rampage-was-fueled-by-satan-86860/">Satan</a> who carried out the attack on Sandy Hook.</li> <p> <li> The Christian Film & Television Commission is <a href="http://www.christiannewswire.com/news/7202971137.html">demanding</a> that the MPAA change the rating of Quentin Tarantino's "Django Unchained" from R to NC-17.</li> <p> <li> Finally, judging by the emails we've been receiving from Religious Right groups lately, they have bought into the Obama campaign's <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-11-29/the-science-behind-those-obama-campaign-e-mails">findings</a> that emails with a "casual tone was usually most effective," because we're pretty sure that L. Brent Bozell does not normally sent out emails titled "Yo": </li> <p align="center"><img alt="" src="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/sites/default/files/rremails.jpg" /></li></ul>
Kyle MantylaBrent Bozell LeftoversRon Paul41826Fri, 21 Dec 2012 17:04:52 -0500Ron PaulGOP Presidentials Line Up to Kiss Ralph Reed's...Ringhttp://www.pfaw.org/content/gop-presidentials-line-kiss-ralph-reedsring
<p>Remember that &ldquo;game-changing&rdquo; endorsement of Rick Santorum by a group of evangelical leaders desperate to deny the Republican nomination to Mitt Romney?&nbsp; As Brian <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/while-santorum-wins-religious-right-support-no-signs-strong-consensus">reports</a>, there wasn&rsquo;t really that much of a consensus in Texas.&nbsp; And it certainly didn&rsquo;t make it to South Carolina, where Romney, Santorum, Newt Gingrich, Ron Paul, and Rick Perry all paraded before a gathering convened by Ralph Reed&rsquo;s &ldquo;Faith and Freedom Coalition&rdquo; just hours before the latest debate.&nbsp; All had their fans in the crowd, and Gingrich seemed to have more, or at least more vocal, backers, than Santorum.<br />
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&ldquo;We are here today because we say unapologetically and unequivocally that there cannot be true freedom without faith in almighty God,&rdquo; announced the disgraced-and-rebounding Reed, who led the Christian Coalition to prominence in the 1990s and launched the Faith & Freedom coalition in 2009 as a voter turnout machine for conservative evangelicals.&nbsp; He claims that he is going to register 2 million new voters on his way to compiling a database of 27 million voters who will be contacted over and over up and through Election Day.&nbsp; &ldquo;If you thought we turned out in 2010, you ain&rsquo;t seen nothing yet,&rdquo; he warned Democratic leaders.&nbsp; Reed said &ldquo;in 2012 we&rsquo;re going to stand up and be counted and we&rsquo;re going to say that people with faith in God aren&rsquo;t what&rsquo;s wrong with America, they&rsquo;re what&rsquo;s right with America and we need more of them engaged and more of them involved.&rdquo;&nbsp; <br />
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The audience may not have been united on a candidate, but the candidates were unanimous in their avowed devotion to the Religious Right&rsquo;s anti-abortion, anti-gay agenda, and their promises to fight &ldquo;secularism&rdquo; and the Obama administration&rsquo;s alleged love affair with European-style &ldquo;socialism&rdquo; and its supposed &ldquo;war on religion.&rdquo; Also on the list: promises to repeal &ldquo;Obamacare,&rdquo; appoint right-wing justices to the Supreme Court, and shrink government.&nbsp; Reed promised that a Republican Congress and president would &ldquo;dramatically slash&rdquo; the corporate tax rate and take the capital gains tax to zero.<br />
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Rick Perry, whose once-mighty support has virtually evaporated in recent months, promised to set the audience on fire.&nbsp; His rambling remarks &ndash; punctuated with fist-pumping exclamations like &ldquo;God and country!&rdquo; &ndash; were well received, but South Carolina doesn&rsquo;t seem likely to resurrect his candidacy.<br />
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<strong>The Supreme Court<br />
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Several candidates and their backers talked about the importance of the next president&rsquo;s ability to appoint Supreme Court justices.&nbsp; Jay Sekulow, head of the Religious Right legal group American Center for Law & Justice, is one of Romney&rsquo;s most prominent Religious Right backers.&nbsp; Sekulow talked about counting to five when he prepares Supreme Court cases, and said he was confident that with a President Romney making appointments in the mold of Justices Roberts and Alito, &ldquo;I&rsquo;m not going to have to worry about my math skills.&rdquo; Reed, who introduced Gingrich, cited Clarence Thomas, Antonin Scalia, John Roberts, and Samuel Alito as the kind of justices he was looking forward to &ndash; and not someone like Sotomayor.&nbsp; The Obama administration&rsquo;s Justice Department also came in for sharp criticism, with Reed saying that Attorney General Eric Holder needs to &ldquo;go back to where he came from.&rdquo;<br />
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<strong>Pursuit of Happiness: The Gay Exception<br />
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One candidate after another cited the Declaration of Independence&rsquo;s reference to the unalienable rights of &ldquo;life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness&rdquo;&nbsp; -- and then went on to call for a constitutional amendment that would prevent any state from allowing same-sex couples to get married.&nbsp; Romney said he would defend the Defense of Marriage Act and called for a constitutional amendment on marriage.&nbsp; Santorum said government based on the principles of strong faith and strong families was needed to constrain bad behavior and immoral activity.&nbsp; Perry dropped his voice to a dramatic whisper to assure gay people that &ldquo;I love you regardless of what you&rsquo;ve done. I hate your sin, but I love you.&rdquo; <br />
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<strong>Threats to &ldquo;Religious Liberty&rdquo;<br />
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Many speakers argued that Christians in America are besieged by rampaging secularists.&nbsp; Romney said President Obama had put America on a path to being &ldquo;more and more of a secular nation.&rdquo; Rep. Tim Scott (R-SC) asserted, &ldquo;The greatest minority under assault today are Christians &ndash; no doubt about it.&rdquo; Rick Perry decried liberals in Congress and on the courts who he said wanted to &ldquo;whitewash the public square of all spiritual references&rdquo; and &ldquo;sanitize from our history books our Judeo-Christian roots.&rdquo;&nbsp; &ldquo;If I am president of the United States, I will not allow them to do it! I will welcome people of faith to the public arena!&rdquo; said Perry.&nbsp; &ldquo;This is our country, ladies and gentlemen. This is our time. And it is time for people of faith to take this country back!&rdquo;&nbsp; Romney and Reed promised that 2012 would bring more than political victory; it will bring spiritual awakening and renewal to America.<br />
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<strong>Ron Paul&rsquo;s Biblical Economics<br />
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Journalist Adele Stan has <a href="http://www.alternet.org/teaparty/153607/major_ron_paul_supporter_favors_death_penalty_for_gays/?page=entire">reported </a>on Ron Paul&rsquo;s ties to Christian Reconstructionists and their religious view of limited government. Paul cited the Bible to support his monetary policies, saying &ldquo;The Bible says we&rsquo;re supposed to have honest currency and we&rsquo;re not supposed to print the money.&rdquo;&nbsp; He also cited Biblical stories from Isaiah and Elijah about the importance of the &ldquo;remnant&rdquo; &ndash; the small number of people who could be counted on to hear the word of God.&nbsp; The portrayal of conservative Christians as the righteous remnant is a popular theme at Religious Right gatherings.<br />
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<strong>Romney v (Gingrich v Santorum)<br />
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The current story of the GOP primary seems to be whether Santorum or Gingrich can rally enough conservatives who distrust Romney to wrest the nomination away from him.&nbsp; On one South Carolina radio station, Gingrich and Santorum ads ran back to back on Monday, each making the &ldquo;electability&rdquo; case.&nbsp; Santorum and Gingrich both attacked Romney&rsquo;s ability to challenge &ldquo;Obamacare,&rdquo; and each used their remarks to argue that they could best carry the banner of unapologetic conservatism.&nbsp;&nbsp; Santorum bragged that he opposed the Wall Street bailouts while Romney, Gingrich, and Perry supported them.&nbsp; He claimed that he was the only one whose economic plan was grounded in building strong families.&nbsp; Gingrich pledged that he would challenge Obama to seven 3-hour Lincoln-Douglas-style debates, even offering to let Obama use a teleprompter (those jokes never go out of style at GOP gatherings), saying, &ldquo;I think I can tell the truth without notes better than he can lie with a teleprompter.&rdquo;&nbsp; Gingrich&rsquo;s brashness was mirrored in the comments of Rep. Trent Franks, who once <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/rep-trent-franks-declares-president-obama-enemy-humanity">called </a>President Obama an &ldquo;enemy of humanity,&rdquo; told the Faith & Freedom crowd that in a debate with President Obama, Gingrich &ldquo;will eat Mr. Obama&rsquo;s cookies and all accoutrements thereto.&rdquo;<br />
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<strong>Appropriating a Sanitized MLK<br />
</strong> <br />
Several speakers noted that the Faith & Freedom rally and GOP debate were taking place on Martin Luther King Day.&nbsp; Romney expressed admiration for King, who he referred to as &ldquo;a great man.&rdquo;&nbsp; But King&rsquo;s Poor People&rsquo;s Campaign and demand for government help in finding people jobs would not have won any praise from Romney or others at this event.&nbsp; Neither would Jesus&rsquo; teaching that it would be easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter heaven.&nbsp; Building on the backlash against Gingrich and Perry&rsquo;s criticism of Romney&rsquo;s record as a &ldquo;vulture capitalist,&rdquo; Romney denounced &ldquo;class warfare&rdquo; and charged that Obama wants to create an &ldquo;entitlement society.&rdquo;&nbsp; Obama, he said, wants to replace ambition with envy, and &ldquo;poison the American spirit by replacing a sense of unity with a sense of class warfare.&rdquo;&nbsp; According to Romney, believing &ldquo;one nation under God&rdquo; means not noticing economic inequality. Others took the same line. Santorum, who says it&rsquo;s un-American to even talk about a &ldquo;middle class,&rdquo; said Obama &ldquo;wants to rule us&rdquo; and thinks he can win by &ldquo;dividing America up.&rdquo;&nbsp; He said that Obama is destroying the incentive to create wealth.<br />
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In his eagerness to rally the Founding Fathers to his side, Romney mangled history in a way that called attention to the importance of MLK Day being more about learning and less about empty platitudes.&nbsp; According to Romney, the Founders&rsquo; choice of words about the unalienable right to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness in the Declaration of Independence indicated that they meant to create an opportunity society.&nbsp; &ldquo;This would be a nation where people would pursue happiness according to their dreams,&rdquo; said Romney. &ldquo;We would not be limited by the circumstances of our birth, we would not be limited by our race or gender&hellip;&rdquo;&nbsp;&nbsp; Well, Mr. Romney, we&rsquo;re closer to that ideal, thanks to the work of Martin Luther King and countless others, but the founders were quite willing to limit people&rsquo;s opportunities based on race and gender.&nbsp; And they weren&rsquo;t the last.</p>Peter MontgomeryElection 2012Jay Sekulow Mitt RomneyNewt Gingrich Ralph Reed Reproductive HealthRepublican PartyRick Perry Rick Santorum Ron PaulTim ScottFaith and Freedom Coalition28693Wed, 18 Jan 2012 13:44:50 -0500Ron PaulRon Paul's Iowa State Director Dedicated His Career to Fighting 'Evil' Gay Rightshttp://www.pfaw.org/content/ron-pauls-iowa-state-director-dedicated-his-career-fighting-evil-gay-rights
<p>As Iowa State Director for the Ron Paul presidential campaign Mike Heath claims to have visited <a href="http://www.ronpaul2012.com/2011/12/26/ron-paul-endorsed-by-pella-area-christian-pastor/">close to three hundred houses of worship on Paul&rsquo;s behalf</a>, more evidence of Heath&rsquo;s rabidly anti-gay background while a Religious Right activist in Maine is coming to light. Before Maine&rsquo;s marriage equality law was repealed, Heath contended that the legalization of same-sex marriage <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/mike-heath-resurfaces-ron-paul-iowa">led to bad weather</a> because &ldquo;our elected officials overturned a law of nature, and in its place paid honor to evil and unnatural practices,&rdquo; and Warren Throckmorton, who<a href="http://wthrockmorton.com/2011/12/28/kayserendorsemen/"> first uncovered</a> that Paul was boasting about an endorsement from a pastor who<a href="http://wthrockmorton.com/2011/12/28/kayserendorsemen/"> advocates for the death penalty for gays and lesbians</a>, <a href="http://wthrockmorton.com/2011/12/27/what-does-ron-paul-really-believe-about-gays/">notes</a> that Heath was also the <a href="http://wthrockmorton.com/2011/12/27/what-does-ron-paul-really-believe-about-gays/">Board Chairman</a> of <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/groups/americans-truth">Americans For Truth About Homosexuality</a>, one of the most fringe and virulently anti-gay groups in the country.</p>
<p>In Maine, Heath urged the legislature to <a href="http://americansfortruth.com/2009/11/05/statement-by-mike-heath-on-defeat-of-homosexual-marriage-law-in-maine/">re-criminalize homosexuality</a>, saying it would &ldquo;be prudent to reinstate Maine&rsquo;s anti-sodomy law,&rdquo; and worked to overturn the state&rsquo;s marriage equality law, <a href="http://americansfortruth.com/2009/11/05/statement-by-mike-heath-on-defeat-of-homosexual-marriage-law-in-maine/">declaring</a>, &ldquo;Homosexuality has absolutely nothing to do with marriage.&nbsp;Homosexuality is a sickness.&rdquo;</p>
<p>In an <a href="http://americansfortruth.com/2010/04/24/april-24-2010-guest-mike-heath-executive-director-american-family-association-of-maine/">interview</a> with AFTAH president Peter LaBarbera last year, Heath said that homosexuality is not only &ldquo;inconsistent with the Word of God but it&rsquo;s inconsistent with biology and common sense,&rdquo; and that &ldquo;there is only one position on homosexuality and it&rsquo;s the one that we take&rdquo;:</p>
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<p>He also alleged that homosexuality will &ldquo;erode the strength of our nation&rdquo;:</p>
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<p>Heath even <a href="http://www.allofgraceministries.org/jellyfish.html">claimed</a> that gay rights is &ldquo;evil&rdquo; and &ldquo;nutty,&rdquo; writing that the &ldquo;&lsquo;gay&rsquo; ideology is going to go the way of the Berlin wall&rdquo; and pledging, &ldquo;I want Maine to be the place where the &lsquo;gay&rsquo; wall starts to crumble.&rdquo; Heath said that he intends to &ldquo;take back&rdquo; the rainbow flag from gay right advocates, saying: &ldquo;God gave us the rainbow long before the sexual disorientation mob stole it. The rainbow reminds us of His mercy. He will never destroy the world again with a flood. Let's just the tell the loud mouth &lsquo;gays&rsquo; that the Rainbow flag belongs to us now. It is a symbol of God's judgment that will fall on them if they persist in their sinful ways&rdquo;:</p>
<blockquote> Years ago we said the "gays" were going to go after the children. Everyone laughed thinking we were nuts. <br />
<br />
In August the Maine Supreme Court perverted a nineteenth-century definition of adoption. They unanimously ruled that nineteenth century Mainers imagined homosexual adoption and allowed for it in their definition. Maine state government is now placing kids in "queer" homes through both the foster care and adoption systems. <br />
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There was never legislative approval for any of this, I don't believe. It was all created by unelected Judges and bureaucrats. The entire Middle School System in Maine is now moving toward the provision of prescription contraceptives to 11 year old girls without parental knowledge. Don't think that the King Middle School incident is the end of the story. No way. That is just the beginning. The only thing that will turn that around is a lawsuit that may be filed this Friday. The people of Portland, Christians especially, don't care enough to do ANYTHING. So, guess what. The political and cultural pressure is going to grow and grow. The tyranny of "gay" ideology has already silenced the church of Portland. It is only a matter of time before the cancer spreads throughout Maine. <br />
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You think John the Baptist is the only one in history to be silenced by a tyrant? It happens all the time. It isn't supposed to happen here. It is, however, already happening because Christians voluntarily silence themselves. Portland, our largest and most influential city, is leading the way. In the early nineties I compared Portland to Sodom. Little did I know. <br />
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While the front line of this war seems to be the schools the front line is actually the heart of every Christian in Maine. The front line is not the mind of the Christian. We already know the difference between right and wrong. The front line is our hearts. Do we care? Do we have the courage to do something about it? <br />
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Taxpayers are funding re-education groups called Civil Rights Teams in most of Maine's public schools. These communist-lite groups intimidate Christian faculty and students into silence about sexual immorality in the name of "civil rights." It is insane, and it is working. Evil is like that. <br />
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If we care more about our dogs and cats than our God-given obligation to raise our children and grandchildren up in the way they should go then God must be thinking about vocal chords for rocks.<br />
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You might conclude that I am not hopeful about Maine's future. Nothing could be further from the truth. This "gay" ideology is going to go the way of the Berlin wall. It is only a matter of time. It can't come soon enough for me. One person told me the backlash would come in five or ten years. As far as I'm concerned the backlash is going on right now. I'll never give in to these people, these evil ideas. Most Mainers feel the same way I do. They are going to speak. They are going to react. It is only a matter of time. Only a sad and pathetic minority embraces these nutty ideas about sex. <br />
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I want Maine to be the place where the "gay" wall starts to crumble. How about you? Lets take the word "gay" back from them. How about the rainbow? Lets take that back also.<br />
<br />
The Maranacook Community School in Readfield has a rainbow flag hanging in their lobby. It was placed there by the school's noisy and pathetic "gay" rights student group. Rather than ask that a Christian flag be placed next to it, how about we just take the rainbow back. God gave us the rainbow long before the sexual disorientation mob stole it. The rainbow reminds us of His mercy. He will never destroy the world again with a flood. Let's just the tell the loud mouth "gays" that the Rainbow flag belongs to us now. It is a symbol of God's judgment that will fall on them if they persist in their sinful ways. Let's tell them that. </blockquote>Brian TashmanAnti-Gayelection 2010Mike HeathPeter LaBarbera Ron PaulAmericans for Truth 28810Fri, 30 Dec 2011 14:05:42 -0500Ron PaulKlingenschmitt: 'Ron Paul Does Not Have Any Republican Support'http://www.pfaw.org/content/klingenschmitt-ron-paul-does-not-have-any-republican-support
<p>For the last several years, Ron Paul has regularly won the straw polls at conservative events like <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/02/12/ron-paul-wins-presidential-straw-poll-cpac/">CPAC</a>&nbsp;and the <a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1011/65482.html">Values Voter Summit</a> but Religious Right organizers and activists have always been <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20117696-503544.html">quick</a> to <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/move-along-nothing-see-here">dismiss</a> these wins as flukes and assert that Paul does not actually represent the views of the movement.</p>
<p>Now that Paul's presidential campaign appears to be <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/28/iowa-caucus-2012-ron-paul-poll_n_1172411.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter">picking up steam</a>, Religious Right activists are no longer simply dismissing Paul but are <a href="http://www.wrongonmarriage.com/">actively attacking him</a>, with people like Bryan Fischer <a href="http://www.afa.net/Blogs/BlogPost.aspx?id=2147514858">saying</a> Paul is a renegade who should not be allowed to participate in GOP&nbsp;debates and Matt Barber writing columns about how "<a href="http://townhall.com/columnists/mattbarber/2011/12/29/ron_paul_is_dangerous">Ron Paul is dangerous</a>."</p>
<p>But it is a sign that the Religious Right is really getting worried about Paul and his campaign when they start spinning elaborate conspiracy theories about how Paul and his supporters are really Democrats who are out to take over the Republican Party, as Gordon Klingenschmitt did while appearing on <a href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/cityonahill/2011/12/28/perspectives-with-chaplain-gordon-klingenschmitt">City On A Hill Radio yesterday</a>:</p>
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<blockquote>
<p>Ron Paul is to the left of President Obama on social issues: he wants to legalize marijuana, he wants to support homosexualizing the military and repeal DOMA, the Defense of Marriage Act, he is all about homosexual marriage. This is a man who claims to be a Republican but he&rsquo;s a RINO, he&rsquo;s a Republican In Name Only, because Ron Paul is openly a libertarian. He&rsquo;s not part of the Republican Party, he&rsquo;s wrong on all the issues that we care about as the church. So, because he&rsquo;s so far left of even President Obama, he&rsquo;s gathering support from Democrats.</p>
<p>In Iowa, the only reason Ron Paul is polling so high is because he&rsquo;s getting crossover votes from the left-wing.&nbsp; And there are people who are trying to sabotage the Republican primary, they want to elect a Democrat, at least in his social conservative policies, Ron Paul is a Democrat, or is a libertarian.&nbsp; He&rsquo;s anti-church, anti-Christian, anti-Israel, pro-homosexual, pro-marijuana, everything that we don&rsquo;t believe in, the Democrats do believe in; everything that Ron Paul believes in, the Democrats do believe in.</p>
<p>I think that&rsquo;s why they&rsquo;re lining up and they&rsquo;re trying to make it appear as if in the Republican caucuses in Iowa and in the different places around the country, that Ron Paul actually has some Republican support.&nbsp; I think he doesn&rsquo;t. Ron Paul does not have any Republican support. Everyone who is a Ron Paul supporter is not a Republican, they are either a Democrat or a libertarian trying to take over the Republican Party.</p>
</blockquote>Kyle MantylaGordon Klingenschmitt Ron PaulValues Voter Summit 28817Thu, 29 Dec 2011 14:03:34 -0500Ron PaulMike Heath Resurfaces with Ron Paul in Iowahttp://www.pfaw.org/content/mike-heath-resurfaces-ron-paul-iowa
<p>Back in 2009, during the battle over marriage equality in Maine, Mike Heath of the Maine Family Policy Council was deeply involved in the fight, claiming that gay marriage <a href="http://www.goodasyou.org/good_as_you/2009/08/mike-heath-continues-to-paint-us-into-victorys-corner.html">was a warning sign</a> "that our society is very sick indeed, and may be entering its final crisis" and was ever responsible for the state's&nbsp;<a target="_blank" href="http://www.goodasyou.org/good_as_you/2009/08/maine-partly-homo-with-a-chance-of-devilish-reign.html">bad weather</a>:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Our crops are faring like our moods. The potato crop is blighted, and corn and fruit fields wither. In one historic building in Augusta, rain flooded the basement, as water from another source poured down through the ceiling and extinguished a century-old chandelier.</p>
<p>Few people would be bold enough to suggest the cause of the endless rain and gloom, that the moral climate in Maine has caused the sun to hide its face in shame.</p>
<p>Worse than the rain is the fact that Maine voted in homosexual &ldquo;marriage.&rdquo;</p>
<p>In May, our elected officials overturned a law of nature, and in its place paid honor to evil and unnatural practices. Our leaders allowed a cloud of error to hide the light of reason, and then the rain began. How fitting that this eclipse of human reason is mirrored by the disappearance of the sun!</p>
<p>What darkness equals the error of saying a family should be headed by two mothers or two fathers? What error equals saying that two women can be married, or two men? I am not saying that homosexuals or the gay rights movement are to blame for the weather. Far from it!</p>
<p>The fault lies with a refractory governor and Legislature who imposed an immoral law on our people. </p>
</blockquote>
<p>Heath's embarrassing antics caused others in the marriage fight to <a target="_blank" href="http://www.goodasyou.org/good_as_you/2009/09/yes-on-1s-most-revelatory-strategy-forcing-mike-heath-into-the-closet.html">cast him aside</a> and, seeing the writing on the wall, Heath eventually <a href="../../../../../../../content/maines-mike-heath-moves">resigned his position</a> and announced that he was going to <a target="_blank" href="http://www.bangordailynews.com/detail/121900.html">get involved in the manufacture and distribution of solar cookers in Africa</a>.</p>
<p>That effort did not last very long and a few months later Heath was back in Maine, <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/maines-mike-heath-returns-head-new-afa-affiliate">running the American Family Association's state affiliate</a> and contemplating a <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/so-much-mike-heath-drops-gov-bid">short-lived run for governor</a>.</p>
<p>After that, Heath fell off our radar ... until we learned today <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/saint-paul-inside-ron-paul-effort-convince-christian-150637605.html">from Chris Moody</a> that he is currently in charge of church outreach for Ron Paul's presidential campaign in Iowa:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Paul has brought several Christian conservatives onto his campaign in an ambitious effort to reach believers for his cause. Michael Heath, the campaign's Iowa director, previously worked for a New England-based group called the Christian Civic League of Maine that fought against adding sexual orientation to the state's Human Rights Act.</p>
<p>The national campaign has tasked Heath with leading church outreach in Iowa, where for months he has met with pastors and Christian congregations. "That's the biggest part of what I'm doing as state director," Heath told Yahoo News after a day of knocking on church doors with campaign literature. "Going to churches with a message in support of Dr. Paul's campaign that is very much faith-based and is also rooted in his commitment to a constitutionally defined limited federal government."</p>
</blockquote>Kyle MantylaElection 2012Mike HeathRon Paul28946Fri, 09 Dec 2011 11:25:41 -0500Ron Paul